[SEMCO] Special Peanut Butter Club Presentation on July 17

[Joanne Tromp]

*PEANUT BUTTER CLUB:*Presents author Steve Kurkjian who will discuss his 
new book “Master Thieves” on Friday, July 17, at noon in Redfield 
Auditorium, 45 Water St., Woods Hole. It is a case defined by 
superlatives - the largest art theft in history, carrying the world’s 
largest reward offer, longer on the FBI’s list of biggest unsolved art 
crimes than any other save one. Two men disguised as Boston Police 
officers trick their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after 
midnight, tie up the two night watchmen and make off with an estimated 
half-billion dollars’ worth of artwork including three works by 
Rembrandt and a Vermeer masterpiece. Now 25 years after the theft, 
Stephen Kurkjian who was the principal reporter on the case for /The 
Boston Globe/ for years, has written a gripping account of the 
still-unsolved heist of a quarter century ago. In “Master Thieves,” 
Kurkjian reveals how the two criminal gangs battling for control of the 
Boston under-world knew of the museum’s poor security and that one had a 
motive to pull off the theft - to fashion an exchange that would result 
in the release of its leader from federal prison. Books will be for sale 
after the talk. Sponsored by the WHOI Information Office. Coffee, tea, 
and cookies served. Donations accepted
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